Are 12 nodes needed to accurately stage T1 and T2 colon cancers?

Digestive Diseases and Sciences

Volumn 54, Issue 3, 2009, Pages 640-647

  Maggard, Melinda A ^a   Yermilov, Irina ^a,b   Tomlinson, James S ^a,b   Ko, Clifford Y ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b VA GREATER LOS ANGELES HEALTHCARE SYSTEM   (United States)

Author keywords

Colon cancer; Lymph nodes; Outcomes; Quality measure; T stage

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; CANCER DIAGNOSIS; CANCER RISK; CANCER STAGING; CANCER SURGERY; CLINICAL EVALUATION; COLON CANCER; COMPARATIVE STUDY; CONTROLLED STUDY; DIAGNOSTIC ACCURACY; FEMALE; HAZARD; HUMAN; HUMAN TISSUE; LYMPH NODE METASTASIS; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SURVIVAL RATE; TUMOR VOLUME;

ADENOCARCINOMA; AGED; COLON; COLONIC NEOPLASMS; FEMALE; HUMANS; INCIDENCE; KAPLAN-MEIERS ESTIMATE; LYMPHATIC METASTASIS; MALE; NEOPLASM STAGING; PROPORTIONAL HAZARDS MODELS; SEER PROGRAM; UNITED STATES;

EID: 59449090839     PISSN: 01632116     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s10620-008-0373-0     Document Type: Article

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